Mohsin Hamid Quotes
I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
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Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
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It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
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I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
